Honky-Tonk Girl (Hank Thompson song)

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"Honky-Tonk Girl"
Single by Hank Thompson and His Brazos Valley Boys
A-side "Honky-Tonk Girl"
"We've Gone Too Far"
Released1954 (1954)
Recorded1954
Genre country
Length2:25
Label Capitol 2823
Songwriter(s) Hank Thompson, Chuck Harding [1]
Hank Thompson and His Brazos Valley Boys singles chronology
"A Fooler, A Faker"
(1954)
"Honky-Tonk Girl"
(1954)
"We've Gone Too Far"
(1954)
Music video
"Honky-Tonk Girl" (audio only) on YouTube
"Honky-Tonk Girl"
Single by Johnny Cash
from the album Now, There Was a Song!
A-side "Honky-Tonk Girl"
"Second Honeymoon"
Released1960 (1960)
Genre country
Label Columbia 4-41707
Songwriter(s) Autry Inman [2]
Music video
"Honky-Tonk Girl" (audio only) on YouTube

"Honky-Tonk Girl" is a song co-written and originally recorded by Hank Thompson. [3] [2] [4] Released by him on Capitol Records in 1954, [2] [5] it was a nationwide country hit in the United States that year (reaching country number nine on Billboard ). [6]

Contents

The song was notably covered by Johnny Cash.

Cash's version was released as a single by Columbia Records (Columbia 4-41707, with "Second Honeymoon" on the opposite side) [7] [8] [6] [9] [10] in June [11] [12] or July 1960. [13]

Composition

The song evokes a barroom atmosphere. [14]

Charts

Johnny Cash version

Chart (1960)Peak
position
US Billboard Hot 100 [15] 92

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References

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  2. 1 2 3 "Johnny Cash - Second Honeymoon / Honky-Tonk Girl". Discogs . 1960. Retrieved 2019-01-20.
  3. "Cover versions of Honky-Tonk Girl by Hank Thompson and His Brazos Valley Boys". SecondHandSongs. Retrieved 2019-01-25.
  4. Nat Shapiro; Bruce Pollock (1985-09-01). Popular music, 1920-1979: a revised cumulation. Gale Research Co. ISBN   978-0-8103-0847-3.
  5. Thurston Moore (1971). The Country Music Who's who. Heather Publications.
  6. 1 2 Joel Whitburn (2007). Joel Whitburn's Top Pop Singles 1955-2006. Record Research. ISBN   978-0-89820-172-7.
  7. John L. Smith (1 January 1999). Another Song to Sing: The Recorded Repertoire of Johnny Cash. Scarecrow Press. ISBN   978-0-8108-3629-7.
  8. Joel Whitburn (2002). Top Country Singles, 1944 to 2001: Chart Data Compiled from Billboard's Country Singles Charts, 1944-2001. Record Research. ISBN   978-0-89820-151-2.
    Joel Whitburn (2005). Joel Whitburn's Top Country Songs: 1944-2005, Billboard. Record Research. ISBN   978-0-89820-165-9.
  9. Tim Neely (2004-05-01). Goldmine Records & Prices . Krause Publications. ISBN   978-0-87349-781-7. Second Honky-Tonk Girl Columbia 41707.
  10. George Albert (1984-01-01). The Cash Box Country Singles Charts, 1958-1982. Scarecrow Press. ISBN   978-0-8108-1685-5.
  11. Peter Lewry (2001). I've Been Everywhere: A Johnny Cash Chronicle. Helter Skelter. ISBN   978-1-900924-22-1.
    June
    Both Columbia and Sun Records release singles this month – "Second Honeymoon"/"Honky Tonk Girl" (Columbia 4-41707) and "Story Of A Broken Heart"/"Down The Street To 301" (Sun 343).
  12. The Johnny Cash Record Catalog. Greenwood Publishing Group. 1994. pp. 21–. ISBN   978-0-313-29506-5.
  13. Steve Turner (2005-10-30). The Man Called CASH: The Life, Love and Faith of an American Legend. Thomas Nelson. pp. 245–. ISBN   978-1-4185-7809-1.
  14. Country: The Music and the Musicians : from the Beginnings to the '90s. Country Music Foundation. 1994. ISBN   9781558598799. "The Wild Side of Life," a William Warren composition that was a #1 for Thompson in 1952, is probably his best-known hit. It evoked the barroom atmosphere that Thompson would return to over and over again in songs like "Honky Tonk Girl," ...
  15. "Johnny Cash Chart History (Hot 100)". Billboard. Retrieved 2019-01-25.